{"product_id":"2026200012035-secondhand-de-gaulle-a-biography","title":"De Gaulle: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in modern history command the sheer mythic weight of Charles de Gaulle — soldier, statesman, and the indomitable symbol of French resistance against Nazi occupation. Aidan Crawley's De Gaulle: A Biography presents a comprehensive and authoritative portrait of this towering twentieth-century leader, tracing his arc from a determined military officer in the trenches of the First World War to the architect of the Fifth Republic and France's most consequential postwar president. Crawley chronicles de Gaulle's legendary refusal to accept France's 1940 armistice with Germany, his years of exile in London rallying the Free French forces, his triumphant return to liberated Paris, and the decades of political drama that would define modern France.\n\nCrawley, himself a former RAF officer, politician, and accomplished journalist, brings a uniquely insider perspective to his subject, grounding grand historical events in the human ambitions and contradictions that drove them. The biography illuminates de Gaulle's fierce nationalism, his complex relationships with Churchill and Roosevelt, and his singular, often abrasive genius for political survival. Written with narrative clarity and intellectual rigour, De Gaulle: A Biography stands as an essential study of power, identity, and the making of a nation — leaving the reader to wonder whether such monumental figures of will and vision could ever emerge again in an age of consensus politics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130916905179,"sku":"2026200012035-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/568cec45-afd7-4b3a-b6ce-f2b115b8099f.png?v=1786591885","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012035-secondhand-de-gaulle-a-biography","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}